Hate to say it but in the UK and Norwegian sector we are way ahead on safety.
I know a rep who works for one of the big Ex (ATEX) Junction box manufacturers and he is moving to the US to head up breaking into the US market.
He was recently telling me that getting US companies to switch from weather proof only boxes to Explosion proof or safe boxes eg EExd and EExe is tough.
The ATEX boxes cost maybe $20 a box, the normal ones $5. He was surprised at how little the US engineers he dealt with knew about these kinds of boxes.
After Piper Alpha things really got cracked down on.
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